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Sound Off! (June 6)

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06/06/2013 01:00:00 AM MDT

I hope the city votes no on rezoning for that development at the Country Club. I just saw the plans in the paper and it is disgusting. It's too high density. It's just a bunch of investors looking to get rich off of our city. Don't approve it so we can reclaim it and make it a nice, beautiful park.

The newest batch of developers want us to believe, number 1, that Nordstrom's would come to Las Cruces, and number 2, they would build their store next to a hospital.

The County Commission thinks we citizens are idiots. They had to pay millions to the abandoned inmate, the jail director is being protected by Commissioner Karen Perez, and they want us to vote to raise our taxes in these times of financial distress. Vote no on any tax increase or bonds. They want us to pay for their incompetence.

The Las Cruces Tea Party (taxed enough already) can't even put together a meager protest over the county wanting to raise taxes. Where in the heck are they when there is a real tax battle?

Thank you, Sun-News, for the article about the farmer giving away several tons of lettuce! Good for the farmer, the volunteers picking the lettuce, the food banks, those consuming the lettuce, and all of us in the community who are enriched and encouraged by such acts.

Why on earth would anyone prevent a property owner from having their own camper in their own yard on their own property? What are you supposed to do if you own a camper, go and pay expensive rent somewhere else?

Hooray for Michael Hays.

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He said what we have been needing to talk about. We do need a building moratorium until we know more about where this drought is leading us.

Kudos to Las Cruces, Anthony, Mesilla and Doña Ana County in considering stricter fireworks regulations due to the drought. I have a feeling that if our Legislature would have met in the summer, we would have had stronger fireworks regulations in place for many years now.

I suggest that all the dead trees be taken care of in this drought. We have got dry trees all over this town that, number one, they look terrible but, number two, could be extremely flammable.

OK kids, summer is here and you are looking for something to do. Why don't you get together and think of something to do for wounded warriors like they did in Wyoming. They made military bracelets, which looked very useful, and sold them.

I wish to commend the young lady who took her newborn baby and relinquished custody to the state. She did not have an abortion and some loving family will adopt that infant and be grateful to that mother who gave up her baby like that.

It is true that in an overbearing police state Katie Sepich may not of died, and I can understand how her parents would gladly trade the Bill of Rights for their daughter's life. Unfortunately my rights have been traded away to help with their grief and the delusion of security.

The furlough notices are out, but the U.S. government can still pay for U.S. penitentiary landscape-design classes, technical assistance to "increase climate resilience" in Mozambique and a planned survey of Indonesian mobile phone users.

I have been reading the news about the IRS very closely, paying a lot of attention to it. When I was young, IRS stood for Internal Revenue Service. Now it stands for the Intimidation and Retribution Service.

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